normally I would agree but even before I joined the forum I was reading posts about crackling pots on elektron devices. this recent post a guy had all major components replaced by warranty service and still facing issue (on rytm)
Rytm volume potentiometer scratchy noise - Elektron Gear / Analog Rytm - Elektronauts
I’m hesitant to throw stop gap treatment at a problem that I think is hardware related but I have some contact cleaner, when I have time later today I’ll open up my digtakt so I can control the spray better and then move the pot up and down for I don’t know maybe a few minutes to really work it in, I’ll get back with the results and then in a few weeks if a fix is found today, I’ll report back to say if it stays fixed. My theory however, is there is a problem with some capacitor that elektron uses, perhaps not the pots. In analog mixers a lot of the time you don’t hear faders and pots crackle unless there is an issue with caps.
But we will see, I’ll try this later today with contact cleaner and let everyone know how the result goes.
My dt was manufactured in I think 2018 so I don’t know if this problem is more common to mk1 devices and early digis. This thread deals with mk2 so I’m guessing it’s not specific to a single time period of production.